The historiography of Medieval Christian-Muslim relations (1960-2020)

John Tolan

doi:10.5209/dmae.85750

The historiography of Medieval Christian-Muslim relations (1960-2020)

John Tolan Université de Nantes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/dmae.85750

Keywords: Islam, Medieval History, Christendom, Orientalism

Abstract

The historiography concerning Medieval Christian Muslim-Relations over the past sixty years has been shaped by two important books: Norman Daniel’s Islam and the West (1960) and Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978). Each of these works made significant contributions to the field, but each also had serious methodological limitations. Both works assumed and reinforced a conceptual divide between an imagined Christian West and Muslim East. Over the past several decades, some of the most interesting and important work in the field has challenged and reconceptualized this dichotomy.

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2023-05-10

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Tolan, John. 2023. “The historiography of Medieval Christian-Muslim relations (1960-2020)”. De Medio Aevo 12, nº 1:: 115-23. https://doi.org/10.5209/dmae.85750